The tools we build and the decisions we make for Indigo Nights.https://indigo-nights.com/en-ushttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/zapping-into-nodes/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/zapping-into-nodes/The 3D hacking mode is playable up to the fight. Hex jumps off a tower, flies a link, lands on the next roof and teleports in, and then a panel says battles are coming soon.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/dropping-the-code-name/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/dropping-the-code-name/Shadow Jog was always a code name. Since Saturday the game is called Indigo Nights, the title screen says so, and the new site builds locally as a skeleton.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/borrowing-from-rpg-maker/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/borrowing-from-rpg-maker/Three editors are in the hub today, a fourth is on its own branch, and four more are planned. Claude builds them, I sketch and give notes, and the layout of several borrows from RPG Maker.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/the-24-px-grid/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/the-24-px-grid/The game had a 16 px grid under 24 px art for about a week. Today the move to a single 24 px grid merged.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/art-tools/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/art-tools/Day one had no art files. Twenty-six days later the game has used PixelLab, Sprite Fusion, Retro Diffusion and three tile packs, and 0.2.0 went out this morning.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/rules-so-far/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/rules-so-far/Several of the rules Claude reads at the start of a session came after something went wrong. The newest one is about GitHub minutes, and 1,811 of this month's 2,000 are already gone.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/command-center-on-the-web/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/command-center-on-the-web/A web page now shows what is running and takes my answers to design decisions.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/trimming-the-loop/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/trimming-the-loop/Fresh agents grade the work against criteria written first. Today I cut that loop from three verifiers to two, after one package ran three rounds and still failed.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://indigo-nights.com/blog/chasing-8-5/https://indigo-nights.com/blog/chasing-8-5/Two days of agent reviews took the average score from 6.36 to a best of 7.98. It still hasn't reached the 8.5 I asked for.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT